Coaching for Chaos: A Qualitative Study of Instructional Methods for Multipatient Management in the Emergency Department

摘要

Busy environments, like the emergency department ( ), require teachers to develop instructional strategies for coaching trainees to function within these same environments. Few studies have documented the strategies used by emergency physician ( )‐teachers within these busy, chaotic environments, instead emphasizing teaching in more predictable environments such as the outpatient clinic, hospital wards, or operating room. The authors sought to discover what strategies ‐teachers were using and what trainees recalled experiencing when learning to handle these unpredictable, overcrowded, complex, multipatient environments.